From Book 4 · Summer by the River
Campfire Twist Bread and Sausages
A real, kid-friendly recipe from the picture book Tiny Forest Cooking School: Summer by the River. Steps marked with a grown-up need an adult — oven, stove or knife.
- Time
- 40 min (including 20 min resting)
- Makes
- 6 sticks
- Heat
- campfire embers or a grill
- Difficulty
You will need
Dough
- all-purpose flour — 2 cups (250 g)
- baking powder — 2 tsp
- salt — ½ tsp
- sugar — 1 tsp
- vegetable oil — 2 tbsp
- warm water — about ⅔ cup (150 ml)
Also
- precooked sausages or hot dogs — 6
- green sticks about 3 feet (1 m) long (only where cutting is allowed) or metal roasting forks — 6
- a small folding knife
Allergens: wheat, check the sausage label
How to make it
- Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Add the oil and water and knead a soft dough. Let it rest under a towel for 20 minutes.
- with a grown-up Cut sticks only where it’s allowed — one from each bush. Sharpen the tip with a small knife: sitting down, carving away from you, your other paw behind the blade.
- Divide the dough into 6 pieces, roll each into a long rope, and wind it around the tip of a stick in a spiral.
- with a grown-up Bake over the embers, not in the flames, slowly turning the stick, for 8–10 minutes, until the bread is golden.
- with a grown-up When the bread is off, put a precooked sausage on the stick tip and hold it over the embers for 3–5 minutes, turning, until it’s hot all the way through.
- Before eating, blow on it and let it cool a little — everything off the fire is very hot!
